The Precipice — Ray Cummings

Private Detective, June, 1945THE PRECIPICEby Ray CummingsOld Mac was dying—Old Mac who’d devoted the best of his life to the Jacques Cartier Lumber Company. And almost his last act in relation to his job was to make a mistake about the payroll! Yet there were ways that could be improvised. Finding the body was evidence enough to show just how the killer had worked in cold-blooded wickedness.4300 Words